One person was injured Tuesday night after a shooting in Hialeah adjacent to Palmetto General Hospital, prompting officials to put the facility under lockdown, reports say. Hialeah Police confirmed to NBC 6 that a shooting occurred around 7:50 p.m. Ofc. Scarlett Hernandez, a Hialeah police spokesperson, told CBS4 Miami that the shooting took place outside […]
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1 man critical, another stable after shooting on Palmetto Expressway, troopers say
Two men were still hospitalized Monday after they were shot multiple times while driving on the Palmetto Expressway in northern Miami-Dade County the night before, Florida Highway Patrol said. Around 7:10 p.m. Sunday, two men traveling east in a white BMW sedan were shot from an unknown vehicle near the Golden Glades interchange, Lt. Alex […]
Palmetto Chief asserts agency’s transparency as investigation into tasing death continues
PALMETTO — Palmetto Police Chief Scott Tyler stood by his officers’ handling of an emergency call in which a 36-year-old Black man was tasered and later died late last year, saying he believed the outside investigation, though painfully slow, will vindicate the agency. Tyler urged the public to be patient, while saying he empathized with the […]